Systemic Design© implies that there are dynamic territorial scale forces in the built and natural environment that could inform more intelligent landscape project scenarios. as opposed to site-scale based or cosmetic outcomes. Systemic Design also merges the existing stresses on a landscape with multi-layered, time-based strategies that work to reclaim value and increase sustainability in the built environment. Systemic design reorganizes disciplinary thought and process to converge on the most pressing landscape issues of our time.
Understanding how natural and artificial systems dynamically interact forms the basis for smarter urban landscape projects in the future. Rapidly expanding technological and design mining tools enable new readings of landscape systems, and the invisible flows and forces that shape the tactile world. Professionals who are prepared to understand, use, and act on those readings will produce the next generation of strategic solutions for climate change, landscape toxicity, renewable energy, water process, deindustrialization, environmental justice, and adaptive reuse.
Department of Urban Studies & Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 10-485
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307
P-REX partners with like-minded agents to implement its transdisciplinary research and consultation. Partner agents include, municipalities, state and federal agencies, universities, foundations, and corporations involved in the planning and design of the natural and built environment.